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icebox
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in the shadows

0 posted 2004-12-01 06:24 PM

At various points of crossing lines,
the karmic intersections
where the mind's grasp
on its understanding of the soul
is tenuous at best,
there comes a time of saying "No!
The rest of you go on your way;
perhaps we'll meet again some day."

The need to please,
faint even at the start
of this wandering twisted life,
grows more pale as I amble down the way;
it is perhaps age
that brings me frequently
up to the edge of letting lapse
the fine points of civility.

More and more,
I feel like some large male animal
about to go rogue
from having lived too many years
among the young,
the all too willing,
and the clearly empty headed.

Oh don't worry,
I'm not about to go postal,
I already have to carry
far too many karmic bricks
as I make my way about.

No, it's more that I've no patience
for the talking monkey heads
that flood the nightly TV screens
with rudely shouted contradictions
and political philosophies
that parade the naked skin of lies,
even worse is social chatter,
filled
with whining little scenes about disappointment,
and depression,
histrionics of little matter,
over some self-aggrandized dream
that turned the wrong way for the whiners' plans
and made them realize
there are lots more
who have agreed to disagree.

©2004 by icebox

serenity blaze
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1 posted 2004-12-01 06:36 PM

sigh

Mercury is retrograde again.

But I'll bet you knew that.

Ratleader

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2 posted 2004-12-03 01:07 AM

More and more,
I feel like some large male animal
about to go rogue
from having lived too many years
among the young,
the all too willing,
and the clearly empty headed.

I know this very feeling all too well, bro....and sometimes I can only draw back from it by reminding myself that by definition, a large rogue male animal is all three of those things. A small matter we have in common, wedged in around the very large.

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iliana
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3 posted 2004-12-03 01:14 AM

Mr. C, I feel the same way and yet I watch those major talking head just to see what they're up to next. I've missed reading you. I'll make time to go back at some point and catch up. *hugs* .......jo

Serene One......I think you're right....because I'm affected, too. When does it let up?????

passing shadows
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4 posted 2004-12-03 12:24 PM

karmic bricks

very cool

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

5 posted 2004-12-03 12:42 PM

Mercury retrograde again..explains a lot of things.
Enjoyed the read sir.

Krawdad
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6 posted 2004-12-03 01:48 PM

Agreed,
the karmic bricks
and the weight of the snow . . .

Gentle Spirit
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7 posted 2004-12-03 01:56 PM

noddin my head and agreeing with above...
yep....
well done sir.

Susan Caldwell
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8 posted 2004-12-03 02:12 PM

"among the young,
the all too willing,
and the clearly empty headed"

yep.

and the monkey heads? They aren't always on TV...

I grow tired as well...let's go get a hot chocolate with marshmellows...and take a walk..

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

RSWells
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9 posted 2004-12-03 02:39 PM

Agreement certainly with the notion of a weary withdrawal from the din and impatience in witnessing the mistakes of the young who seem not to desire learning from other's experiences. It's painful to watch them.

Sharing also the necessity to walk from the path others would have us take for their comfort. Experience is wisdom hard earned and though we may make others uncomfortable with pointed truths they yet must be aired, it is our duty as 'elders' (which once meant something).

We are large animals and the 'rogue-rage' (sorry) surfaces from the knowledge that time is short and we see it wasted.

Your 'bricks' are my baggage and the car that would carry it would rival the old 'Orient Express's baggage cars'. Heavy drag those loads.

I withdraw from the immediate political scene, the prevaricator-twist of the pretty faces always available at the click of the remote, but found the results of the last election liberating. It proved to me that those I so foolishly granted a higher moral ground are obtuse and mean. I focus on the larger issues.

But I am guilty of the 'whining,' the 'disappointment,
and depression' (though I like to think my voice carries no histrionics and its baritone grumbles less than whines)

and I enjoyed your post.

Martie

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10 posted 2004-12-03 08:03 PM

icebox

Thanks for the explanation.

Midnitesun

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11 posted 2004-12-03 08:29 PM

"Oh don't worry,
I'm not about to go postal"

LOL, me either, though I've threatened to do just that more than once.
And WE were those very young ones, once many moons ago, and we didn't listen any better than the younguns of today.

wranx
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12 posted 2004-12-03 11:28 PM

"More and more,
I feel like some large male animal
about to go rogue
from having lived too many years
among the young,
the all too willing,
and the clearly empty headed."

And here I thought I was alone in that. LOL
Thanks for the company I.B.

icebox
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in the shadows

13 posted 2004-12-04 08:44 AM

Thank you all for your time and your comments. Though I do not always have time to express my gratitude, I always appreciate the insights and the effort.

serenity blaze ~ *LAUGH* You certainly could be right about Mercury and its effects, but you reminded me of the time I picked up a newspaper to distract me during one of those times of patient waiting and some hack media astrologer had written, “Be careful tonight, Mars is in Uranus.”

Ratleader ~ Thank you.  I always value your friendship.

iliana ~ *smile*  Sometimes I think we should put Mercury back in our seafood where it belongs.

passing shadows ~ Yes, I am saving them up to build a new astral fortress out on the Akashic Plains. *grin*

Enchantress ~ Thank you kind Lady for taking time to read my rants.

Krawdad ~ That is very insightful; my life always feels like Winter.

Gentle Spirit ~ Maybe we need some kind of post awareness organization where we could go to meetings and bare our thoughts and be talked back into a state of blissful numbness?

Susan Caldwell ~ Oh Darlin’ I haven’t been plied with chocolate in so long I don’t think I would  remember what to do;  I guess though we could go walking in public places then and neither of us would get into trouble. *wink*

RSWells ~ Thank you very much for your clear deconstruction and for your insights.  You made me smile.  Thanks.

Martie ~ Well Grasshopper, you know more answers than you think. *smile*

Midnitesun ~ Like an alcoholic who keeps a full bottle in a closet, one of the advantages of keeping the implements of violence close at hand is that they remind me of that of which I am capable and thereby force me to make responsible decisions.  Otherwise I think sometimes I might just grab a handy chair leg and beat the living hell out of the next fool that crosses my path.  With all its frustrations (for me) I really do prefer peace.

wranx ~ No brother, you are not alone and I have seen in your poetry that you do understand.  Thank you for taking the time to read and comment.

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